Kevin Berry
66:53 - 67:26
"if a teacher leaves the sector or a kid gets kicked out of pre-K, that's a pretty permanent change. And we also then don't get data on what would have happened if they'd stayed in that program"
“if a teacher leaves the sector or a kid gets kicked out of pre-K, that's a pretty permanent change. And we also then don't get data on what would have happened if they'd stayed in that program”
- Speaker
- Kevin Berry
- Timestamp
- 66:53 – 67:26
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- June 9, 2026
From the transcript
But if a teacher leaves the sector or a kid gets kicked out of pre-K, that's a pretty permanent change. And we also then don't get data on what would have happened if they'd stayed in that program for a full— I mean, if they're starting as infants, 5 years. And so my tendency in all of this is to be a bit more conservative and try and avoid making changes in any of those programs and trying to think about how we can most effectively do data collection to understand if they're working. Because if they don't, I'm all for cutting them tomorrow. But I'm just—.
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